A Broker for Emulating a Location Device

1. A web broker for mediating between an HTML client browser running on a client device and an application running on a remote application server through a web session, said web broker comprising: a geolocation information collecting unit, adapted to collect geolocation information from said HTML client browser; a geolocation processing engine, configured to process said geolocation information, thereby generating location device signalling; a transmitting module, adapted to transmit said location device signalling to an application server session of said remote application server, thereby emulating a location device; and an application streamer adapted to: generate a representation of a web page incorporating said application; and stream said representation of said web page to said HTML client browser; wherein the web broker is hosted in a computing system.

2. A web broker according to claim 1 , wherein said geolocation information collecting unit is further adapted to collect said geolocation information from a geolocation application program interface embedded in said HTML client browser.

3. A web broker according to claim 1 , wherein said geolocation information comprises an Internet Protocol address of said HTML client browser.

4. A web broker according to claim 1 , wherein said transmitting module is further adapted to transmit said location device signalling to said application server session via a remote desktop protocol.

5. A web broker according to claim 1 , wherein said representation of a web page corresponds to a HTML5 canvas element.

6. A web broker for mediating between an HTML client browser running on a client device and an application running on a remote application server through a web session, said web broker comprising: a geolocation information collecting unit, adapted to collect geolocation information from said HTML client browser; a geolocation information transmitting module, adapted to transmit said geolocation information to an application server session of said remote application server, such that said remote application server emulates a location device when processing said geolocation information; and an application streamer adapted to: generate a representation of a web page incorporating said application; and stream said representation of said web page to said HTML client browser; wherein the web broker is hosted in a computing system.

7. A web broker according to claim 6 , wherein said geolocation information collecting unit is further adapted to collect said geolocation information from a geolocation application program interface embedded in said HTML client browser.

8. A web broker according to claim 6 , wherein said geolocation information comprises an Internet Protocol address of said HTML client browser.

9. A web broker according to claim 6 , wherein said geolocation information transmitting module is further adapted to transmit said geolocation information to said application server session via a remote desktop protocol.

10. A web broker according to claim 6 , wherein said representation of a web page corresponds to a HTML5 canvas element.